Founding Software Engineer - Equity, H-1B Sponsorship

Simplify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Equity

Hedge Fund Bonus Upside

H-1B Sponsorship

Job summary

Simplify in Palo Alto is seeking an engineer to build and operate systems for market data ingestion, research, trading execution, and trader-facing products. You will own projects end to end from problem definition through deployment, ensuring robust, scalable platforms.

You should have experience owning production software, strong systems judgment, and depth in distributed systems or data infrastructure. You will work independently and contribute foundational code, with opportunities to shape

Qualifications

• Experience owning production software end to end (0→1).
• Evidence of building useful systems from 0 to 1.
• Ability to work independently and own shipped code.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end to end from problem definition and design through implementation, deployment, and operation.
• Help shape the team's technical direction.

Skills

Production Software Development

Backend Engineering

Distributed Systems

Data Infrastructure

Full-Stack Engineering

Research Infrastructure

Applied AI

Agent Systems

Data Pipelines

System Design

Concurrency

Performance Optimization

Software Deployment

Evaluation Frameworks

AI Coding Agents

Quantitative Trading

Tools

Palo Alto

Job description

Simplify in Palo Alto is seeking an engineer to build and operate systems for market data ingestion, research, trading execution, and trader-facing products. You will own projects end to end from problem definition through deployment, ensuring robust, scalable platforms.

You should have experience owning production software, strong systems judgment, and depth in distributed systems or data infrastructure. You will work independently and contribute foundational code, with opportunities to shape